Abortion
Brazilian bishops: Right to life not subject to referendum
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.- The Secretary General of the Bishops’ Conference of Brazil, Archbishop Odilo, said this week the country’s bishops reject a government proposal to hold a referendum on whether or not to legalize abortion in the country.

Archbishop Sherer, who will soon take up his post in the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, said the proposal was equal to debating about the right to kill. “This is absurd.  The Constitution does not foresee it,” he said.

“Nobody would like to see the right to life, which is untouchable, subjected to a referendum,” the archbishop stated.  “Unborn babies are human beings, and they have that same right.”  He also deplored calls to follow the model of Portugal, where abortion was legalized after a referendum.

“We don’t have to imitate what other countries have done,” he said.  “I would not like my right to life to be subjected to a referendum.  Society should care for life, and more so when it’s the life of innocent babies,” he stressed.

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Published by: George Angel
Canada 04/15/2007 01:08 AM EST
The absurdity of the culture of death seems to be completely lost on the vast majority of governments around the world. The Archbishop is quite right in his comment that this question of legalizing abortion in Brazil would be equal to debating about the right to kill. We truly live in a time and world where good is seen as evil, and evil is seen as good. So called modern progressive mankind can no longer see the obvious any more. Hopefully Almighty God will give mankind and its earthly leaders and governments the grace to see the error and insanity of encouraging and promoting the culture of death and its agenda throughout the entire world. The Tower of Babel is alive and well in today's brave new world where moral chaos and confusion runs supreme. In spite of all this confusion and darkness ensaring modern man, God who created mankind, the earth, the universe and beyond is in total control and will intervene to right what is wrong on earth in the twinkling of an eye when Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, True God and True Man will appear at the Second Coming of Christ. The day and the hour only God knows. "Be not afraid." Pray, Pray, Pray!
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